Operation Manual

5. In the Disk management view, examine how the layout of disks and volumes will look when the

pending operations are completed.

6. Commit the pending operations. Monitor the operation progress in the Tasks view. Use the Log

view to examine the history of operations performed on the machine.

Some operations, such as changing the size of a volume from which Windows starts, may require

restarting the machine.

Running Acronis Disk Director from a bootable media

Acronis Disk Director has a bootable version that can be run on a bare metal system, or on a crashed

machine that cannot boot normally, or even on a non-Windows system, like Linux. A bootable

version of Acronis Disk Director is created with Acronis Bootable Media Builder (p. 62).

To run Acronis Disk Director, boot the machine from a bootable media, and then select Acronis Disk

Director.

While working under bootable media (p. 67), Acronis Disk Director can perform almost all the

operations on any disks and volumes that can be performed under Windows.

5.4 Usin g th e mana gement c onsole

As soon as the management console connects to a machine, the respective items appear across the

console's workspace (in the menu, in the main area, the Navigation pane, the Actions and tools

pane) enabling you to perform disk management operations.

The Disk management view

1. Navigation pane

Contains the Navigation tree and the Shortcuts bar.